If you like holes in the ground, encourage hedgehogs. I personally think they are a pain in the ass. Ducks will take care of your snails. Slugs and snails are plant parasites and shoudl be treated like the vermin they are. Nuke the bastards. - Thanks, C.
What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal.
I remember a boss saying of a (highly-esteemed, I should say) colleague "For somebody who can't work on Friday evenings, he eats an awful lot of sausages." A Jewish girlfriend whose sister suddenly started keeping Kosher and everything referred to the unexpected transformation as "going Catholic".
We did actually know that: I think you've mistaken us for one of those dimwit crossposting newsgroups. Be discerning, and don't be misled by some of the headers the freaks add this group to.
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My, my, such language!
Dear Mr. Newton, please do not be so vulgar in these newsgroups. While you may regard the gardening newsgroups perhaps as a locker room, there are others who regard it as a tea party, and find your shouting, nasty derogatory terms, and scatalogical slang to be unpleasant and disruptive.
Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist:
Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food. Get some ducks or chickens if you want to control them organically. They also hate copper and will not cross a strip of copper, so you can wrap copper foil around the stems of affected plants and they will not crawl past that. Go out in the morning and pick them off by hand. Look for their hiding places (under rocks and boards); they will not be very far from the plants. Reduce the number of hiding places. Use slug and snail bait where needed. Got to reduce their populations. - Thanks, C.
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